Author profile: Robert Bryndza
WM subscriber Robert Bryndza tells Margaret James what’s behind the success of his million-selling thrillers
British author Robert Bryndza’s DCI Erika Foster novels The Girl in the Ice and The Night Stalker are permanent fixtures in the bestseller lists, with sales of over 1 million, thousands of glowing reviews and endorsements from delighted readers all over the world.
Robert’s crime debut The Girl in theIce, which sold more than 800,000 copies in under 37 weeks, is firmly set in the UK. But American readers loved it so much that it topped the charts in both The Wall Street Journal and USA Today.
Nowadays, Robert’s huge success as a crime writer allows him to live his dream with his husband Ján in a beautiful part of Slovakia. But he hasn’t always written about serial killers and a feisty female detective with a fascinating backstory of her own. He writes lighter fiction too, his first published novel being a romantic comedy: The Not So Secret Emails of Coco Pinchard.
This story inspired a whole series of contemporary romantic comedies starring a wonderfully quirky and engaging heroine whose life one reviewer on Amazon likened to Last Tango in Halifax on speed.